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Jordan Preface
Like its predecessor, this study is an attempt to treat in a
concise and objective manner the dominant social, political,
economic, and military aspects of contemporary Jordanian society.
Sources of information included scholarly journals and monographs,
official reports of governments and international organizations,
newspapers, and numerous periodicals. Chapter bibliographies appear
at the end of the book; brief comments on some of the more valuable
sources suggested as possible further reading appear at the end of
each chapter. Measurements are given in the metric system; a
conversion table is provided to assist those readers who are
unfamiliar with metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix). A
glossary is also included.
The transliteration of Arabic words and phrases follows a
modified version of the system adopted by the United States Board
on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names
for British Official Use, known as the BGN/PCGN system. The
modification is a significant one, however, in that diacritical
markings and hyphens have been omitted. Moreover, some personal and
place names, such as King Hussein, Jordan River, and Petra, are so
well known by these conventional names that their formal names--
Husayn, Nahr al Urdun, and Batra, respectively, are not used.
Data as of December 1989
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